HOLY BLUETOOTH BATMAN! Sony DSXS310BT

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I have stated in previous posts how much we love Bluetooth audio.  Our favorite receiver for this feature is the Sony DSXS310BTX.  We were introduced to its predecessor last year; the DSXS300BTX.  We not only pushed it in the store but we also put one on our boat.  Pair up the phone, and from anywhere on the boat and even floating in the cove, we could listen to whatever we wanted.

This year, the DSXS310BTX is pretty much the same, however, with a few more added benefits; only one of which I care about and will get to after I appropriately introduce the radio before I fall in love with it all over again.

This receiver is considered to be a digital media receiver.  It has AM/FM, Tune Tray, Front USB, Bluetooth Handsfree and Bluetooth Audio.  This does not include a CD player.  Do you care?  The tune tray will dock your iPod or other USB compatible device and allow you to control the music files from the radio, out of sight.  If you prefer to have your iPhone or iPod not hidden, you can use the Front USB instead.   It also has 4 volt, 3 preout,  LPF/HPF crossovers and Listener Position Calibration. Can I get an “Ooh, la, la”? Ok, enough with the flirting and onto what has me excited.  But first, a little background.

My husband, who just got his first iPhone and doesn’t really care for it, misses his Android; tremendously.   He wanted to get the iPhone because so much of our industry adapts to the iPod/iPhone/iOS blah, blah, blah.   However, with the DSXS310BTX, that won’t matter so much.  See, a lot of receivers spouted the Pandora Link or Control feature this past year, for iPod/iPhone only of course.  Plug your iPod into the USB port and not only would your iPod charge and control iTunes but with Pandora Link, the radio could control Pandora radio from the receiver.  This was another item on Chris’ list of reasons he should get an iPhone.  So he did, and the next week the DSXS310BTX entered the “Nah nah nee boo boo” arena of why one doesn’t need an iPhone.

One more minute, please.  See, since the release of Android, we (meaning Android users) have been bitter about how the car audio industry as a whole was “all about” the iPod.  We were given the understandable excuse of how iPods and all its follow-ups, use the same system, iOS.  Android was different from one brand to another.  We were sad.  We loved our Androids.  Well, at first it was really about not wanting  the unnamed service provider that was brilliant in its exclusivity rights to the iPhone.  So, we were thrilled and somewhat compensated and pacified when Bluetooth Audio came about.  That’s why we are so in love with Bluetooth Audio.  We Android users now feel we can play 12 volt kickball with the cool kids.

Now, yes now, Android users may have the beginnings of their own league in 12 volt kickball.  This is why.  With this Sony receiver, Bluetooth compatible Android and Blackberry users can control, I said CONTROL, their Pandora radio through BLUETOOTH AUDIO!  Holy Bluetooth Audio, Batman!  An iPhone can’t even do that! (at least for now)  Wireless, people!  No connection at all and I can pair up my Droid X and do the “Jungle Boogie” like a real “Dancin’ Queen”, while I’m on a “Road To Nowhere”.

I almost hyperventilated.  I started calling all my sales reps from other brands and they said with a lot of code and running around, “Yes, Bluetooth audio Pandora Link is the “IT” feature with the new radios coming out for 2012.”

However, of our brands, Sony is the first.  Usually, in car audio, the cheaper, I mean, the less expensive receivers come out first in the fall and then the more expensive models everyone is waiting for come out the first 4 months of the New Year.  Sony, in their brilliance, got the jump.  And with it, has created a lot of admiration from this Bluetooth, Android loving girl.  My double X’s are actually jittery with anticipation and curiosity of what 2012 will bring for those of us who did not give up on our Androids.

Now, not only will you get what you pay for, but also what you’ve waited for.   (The clouds break and the sun shines through while harps play in the background.)  Don’t you love it when patience brings you so much of what you have waited for?  If you are looking for a new radio replacement and can admit you don’t need a CD player, the DSXS310BT is a great choice, regardless if you use an iPhone, Blackberry or Android.  Or, you can wait for 2012 and all that is to come.

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